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Customize GenServer Behavior

Explore how to customize GenServer behavior by defining specific callbacks that match your application's needs. Learn to build clean, testable interfaces for managing stateful actions while ensuring concurrency and fault tolerance using Elixir's OTP features and the with/1 special form for efficient condition checks.

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Spawning and initializing a new GenServer process is a great start. However, the default callback implementations we get by using GenServer don’t go very far.

In order to build real applications, we need to change the way GenServer behaves to fit each application’s needs.

  • To do this, we’re going to follow the pattern we’ve ...